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The Butlerian Jihad Has Begun
- dylanrk 5mo ago[dead]
- hdndjsbbs 5mo agoExtremely verbose and unpleasant to read.
- dist-epoch 5mo agoIt's not human written, it's LLM.
- WolfeReader 5mo agoEvidence?
- durzo22 5mo agoIdk most the time I spot it so would be surprised if this one was LLM but could be for sure never know I guess
- summermusic 5mo agoThe minor spelling and grammar mistakes as well as the content of the essay suggest otherwise.
- operatingthetan 5mo agoWhat if I told you it's common for people to add that now to AI writing in an attempt to make it appear human-written? You still have to go on sentence structure and looking for AIisms.
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- xena 5mo agoThis was hard to read; the writer really did not come from the school of succinctness. If the writer is reading this, please try making an edit where you remove as much of the fluff and rephrase sentences like: > When I read this detail, tucked away near the end of a Guardian article, I winced to see another of my predictions come true; that the ‘Butlerian Jihad’ would soon enter public life not as mere literary metaphor, but as a kind of political vocabulary, one destined to spiral into paranoia and violence. Into something like: > This idea of the "Butlerian Jihad" horrified me. We are misunderstanding Herbert's subtle warning about humans being forced to become like machines as a rallying cry against AI companies. I fear that this will lead to paranoia and violence. I think that if the entire article was edited like that it would be a lot more readable.
- beepbooptheory 5mo agoWhy would you argue yours is better?
- xena 5mo agoA few things (written on my phone, forgive the SEO list): * One idea per sentence, more than one tends to make massive run-on sentences that go too far. * Removes irrelevant details. Why does it matter that a Guardian article was the thing that gave the writer the missing link? Essentially the trick is to take your ideas down to the bare minimum required to express them portably and then write that. It makes things much easier to write (you don't have ans many words to put in the document) and the end result is much easier to read (there's less irrelevant details to scan through).
- j_bum 5mo agoSounds very Hemingway. OP might benefit from using https://hemingwayapp.com/ https://hemingwayapp.com/
- kuerbel 5mo ago>Why does it matter that a Guardian article was the thing that gave the writer the missing link? Why? Isn't that kind of obvious? He says he fears that it will enter public life as a kind of political vocabulary. It was in the Guardian, read by millions, shaping discourse. It already entered public life at that point. It's relevant.
- sampo 5mo ago2 months ago also: > A politician’s home was shot at 13 times over a data center vote. > A shooting at the home of an Indianapolis city councillor is bringing new attention to a fight that's been building in communities across the country: the growing backlash against new AI-focused data centers. https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/politician-home-shot-13-times-114500682.html https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/politi...
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- bethekidyouwant 5mo agoEven if? It’s from a book if you’re wondering. We’ve all read it.
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- Nicook 5mo agoI think the word has been twisted a bit, to compare it to holocaust is imo insane. I've known people named Jihad.
- lurkercodemnky 5mo ago> I've known people named Jihad. I have known Indian / SE asian Ice cream shops named Hitler.
- Nicook 5mo agoSure but my point is still that its Arabic and not inherently violent etc. whereas the holocaust is a specific genocidal event.
- baal80spam 5mo agoFun fact 1: "jihad" does not exist in Villeneuve's "Dune" adaptation. Fun fact 2: what happens after The Butlerian Jihad? Return of the empire!
- neonstatic 5mo ago> Fun fact 1: "jihad" does not exist in Villeneuve's "Dune" adaptation. Abomination!
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- pietervdvn 5mo agoBelgian action group "Code Rood" (Code Red) is planning to occupy a data centre next week... https://code-rouge.be/ https://code-rouge.be/
- nick__m 5mo agoI predict that they will be as effective as Extinction Rebellion : lot's of noise, some protesters arrested and no results.
- dist-epoch 5mo agoExtinction Rebellion did not have popular support, in fact they were very annoying to the general public, by blocking roads and trains. Nobody will shed a tear for a blocked data center.
- trollbridge 5mo agoGood luck. It's hard enough to get into a data centre when you're authorised to be there.
- kayo_20211030 5mo agolol
- flumpcakes 5mo agoThen again you're not trying to enter it (potentially) illegally to (maybe) distrust day-to-say service and be a general annoyance (protest)? It's hard to leave the super market quickly when there's a long queue, but if you're shoplifting then you're out in a flash.
- dist-epoch 5mo agoYou just do the good old medieval siege - nothing gets in, nothing gets out.
- saddat 5mo agoRebellion by the incompetent will not lead anywhere
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- throfktjj 5mo ago[flagged]
- kayo_20211030 5mo ago> “All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.” Right.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 5mo agoEvery time I see "Butlerian Jihad", I know the person is more familiar with Brian Herbert's atrocious books than Frank's.
- WolfeReader 5mo agoThis is a great example of commenting on the headline without reading the article.
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- Schlagbohrer 5mo agoThis essay does call Brian Herbert a failson so I don't think he's endorsing those books
- Schlagbohrer 5mo agoThis author sure has an ax to grind against an imaginary online "Left" strawman
- neutronicus 5mo agoI don't think this is true at all, if anything, the tone is "c'mon, guys, you're better than this".
- throfktjj 5mo ago[flagged]
- throfktjj 5mo agoI'm trying my hardest at local vc
- TitaRusell 5mo agoA family member of mine is mayor of a provincial town. She has to deal with protesters reenacting the Neurenberg rallies, angry drug dealers and the run of the mill psychiatric melt down citizen. There is a panic button in her penthouse. Nobody is crying about Jihad and ten years from now she will be living in the green zone.
- dist-epoch 5mo agoAnd we will lose. Like dinosaurs lost to mice, and like chimps lost to humans.
- speak_plainly 5mo agoIt probably feels this way if you're terminally online, but the US government recently revealed the existence of UFOs and no one even blinked or cared. A minority cares, but most people have zero interest. I think the French theorist Jean Baudrillard hit the nail on the head in the 1970s (Essay: In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities). He argued that modern media and technical systems neutralize political will through saturation. As a result, the public has essentially become a massive psychological black hole that absorbs political discourse and flattens it into inertia and apathy. The public is no longer a 'proletariat' or a political class that can be awakened; instead, the masses are a silent majority that will accept every iPhone upgrade or political speech and do nothing with it. There's not going to be an uprising, few, if any will even put their phones down for a minute.
- throrkfjo 5mo agoIt is kind of hard to "awake proletariat" if you advocate mass genocide aganst them. In past the revolution were ususlly in favour of majority, not againet them!
- halJordan 5mo agoBut they didn't reveal the existence of ufo's in any sense that anyone would ever be interested. Especially because the ufo's they did "reveal" have always been known and acknowledged. The term ufo has always been a term of art, stolen by conspiracy theorists. What's been revealed has strengthened the term of art, not the conspiracy theorists. Why would anyone be interested in more of the same?
- kerblang 5mo agoThere is very clearly an angry backlash, even if it is a backlash against phantoms, even if people are only demanding a better liar than the previous. There are no psychological black holes; the stress builds and eventually explodes.
- euroderf 5mo agoIf the Magnifica Humanitas is the germ of the Orange Catholic Bible, that's OK by me.
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- m463 5mo agoI wonder if elon musk will be the victor here, pulling the data centers out of the gravity well and out of reach.